How often, when we encounter a problem, have we caught our ‘ego’ coming in hard and fast driving our reactions and actions? It becomes exhausting because we continually place ourselves as the center of the action. We are actually ‘creating drama’ , seeing ourselves in the role of the victim. We then become victims of […]

Miah Sommer, self-confessed rebel with a cause and founder of The Bike Union Bike Shop, challenges us to rethink our mental model of non-profits – particularly the ‘size’ and ‘quantity’ dimensions. When we only focus on measuring success and effectiveness using a ‘bigger is better’ metrics, then we run the risk thinking the smaller nonprofit […]

The TEDxOmaha 2018 theme was Time to Engage, and the last talk in the first half of the event in October was Lacey Studnicka, with a really thought provoking talk called “Meet One: The Power of Welcoming Refugees” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4oGfJvggFo&t=101s Lacey has been welcoming refugees for seventeen years, and in her talk she points out that […]

Our fourth speaker to take the stage at TEDxOmaha 2018 was Bobby Brumfield. He has a really critical message that we all need to listen to and take action on. Watch Human Connection is the Foundation of Security Strategy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXT6qytBcps&t=291s Bobby tackles a critical area of security and community, and challenges all of us to […]

For those of you who attended TEDxOmaha in October, you will remember that Dr. Jeff Snell was the third speaker with a talk called Catastrophe is in the Eye of the Beholder. In his thought provoking talk Dr. Jeff Snell asks us to walk in another’s’ shoes and imagine, if you will, an accident has […]